The sacred mountains . -: A : \y THE SACRED MOUNTAINS. BY J TS HE AD LEY, 1\—* —— AUTHOR OF NAPOLEON AND HIS MARSHALS, ETC. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK:AKER AND SCRIBNER, 36 PARK ROW AND 145 NASSAU STREET. 1847. &S« o • H-V Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, By BAKER & SCRIBNER, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH,210 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK. E, U. Jenkins, Printer. M TO MY AGED BELOVED FATHER, WHO HAS LONG STOOD ON THE HEIGHTS OF ZION A MESSENGER OF PEACE AND HERALD OF GOOD TIDINGS
The sacred mountains . -: A : \y THE SACRED MOUNTAINS. BY J TS HE AD LEY, 1\—* —— AUTHOR OF NAPOLEON AND HIS MARSHALS, ETC. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK:AKER AND SCRIBNER, 36 PARK ROW AND 145 NASSAU STREET. 1847. &S« o • H-V Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, By BAKER & SCRIBNER, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH,210 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK. E, U. Jenkins, Printer. M TO MY AGED BELOVED FATHER, WHO HAS LONG STOOD ON THE HEIGHTS OF ZION A MESSENGER OF PEACE AND HERALD OF GOOD TIDINGS TO MEN, AND WHOSE FEET I KNOW WILL SOON STAND ON THE MOUNT OF GOD, THESE SKETCHES ARE AFFECTIONATELY PREFACE. The design of the following sketches is to ren-der more familiar and life-like some of the scenesof the Bible. This, I know, is a difficult task, notonly from the disposition of men to look at thingssacred less naturally than on the common eventsof life, but from the inability of the writer to findwords that shall bring the scenes he would de-scribe, home to the feelings, without shocking hisown and the readers sensibilities by too familiarphrases. Yet, unless they cease to become distantvisions to us, we shall never appreciate the displayswhich God has made of himself to man. TheBible is a book of general principles and outlinesketches. To elevate and extend to their full ap-plication the former, has been the work of the reli-gious teacher from the time of Christ till now—-while the filling up of the latter, has been neglectedas impossible or useless. But God has not givenus those few bold outlines of the most thrilling VI PREFACE. scenes in human history, to have them nev
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